17 september 2017 01:46:20

STUFF CCTV footage from a recent robbery at Te Kowhai Food Centre shows cigarettes were clearly the main target. The first two times, they came with guns. Then it was a hammer. And last Saturday morning, an axe. After being robbed and ram-raided 10 times, Tao Liu has had enough. He`s given up the smokes. The owner of the Te Kowhai Food Centre is making a bold move, but he reckons the only way to put off the robbers is to stop selling cigarettes. He knows it could be a blow to his livelihood. `But compared to loss of life, I have to. Before it was just a job, but now it`s very...